Why is LANG set to en_US.UTF-8?

[Aleksandar Milivojevic]

Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic at pbl.ca> said:
> 
>>Usually I have it set to just "C" (default POSIX locale).  I hate when 
>>ls intermix dot files with "normal" files in ls -a output, and don't 
>>like lower/upercase being ignored when sorting either.  Setting LANG to 
>>C solves both problems :-)
> 
> 
> Since all you are complaining about here is ordering (not charset or
> language issues), you should just change the ordering.  LC_COLLATE=C
> works just fine while keeping all the magic goodness that is
> en_US.UTF-8.

I can't say that I noticed any difference (other than ordering in ls 
output) between C and en_US.UTF-8.  Russian and Chinesee spam is 
displayed properly this way or the other.

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